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...been covered by that insult to both aesthetics and orthopedics, artificial turf. "We have nine different grasses at work here," George Toma, the Royals' ground-keeping consultant said last Wednesday, an hour before the first pitch of the season, in Kansas City. "Five bluegrass types-Princeton 104, Eclipse, Nassau, Glade and Suffolk-and four ryes-Derby, Gator, Regal and Top Hat. They act like a team. If one or two get sick, the others take over. Some are hardier than others; some are greener. That's why we have nine. Come to think of it, that's one grass...
...easy to see where these would- be reformers are coming from. Back in the good ol' days, the race for the NCAA football title was decided solely by the games between Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Fans flocked to massive stadiums, all of which looked as historic as Nassau Hall...
...ordinary Cubans race to take advantage of the reforms, inequalities are swiftly giving rise to their inevitable byproducts: class resentment, social unrest and crime. Prostitution once again flourishes in Havana. The influx of tourists (including some Americans, who slip onto the island illegally from Nassau) sets up a stark contrast between the fantasy playground being built for foreigners and the gritty reality that ordinary Cubans must contend with. As the inequalities increase, many poor but educated Cubans view the rush to the dollar with disgust...
...tones. He was sufficiently rational to raise objections that were then sustained by the judge. Yet it was not too long into the first day of the trial last Thursday when Colin Ferguson, lawyer, mused publicly on the 93 charges against Colin Ferguson, defendant, and the audience at the Nassau County, New York, supreme court got a taste of the sort of down-the-rabbit-hole experience they were in for. Leaning informally on a lectern, peering down earnestly at the jury, the Jamaican native intoned his theory: ``There were 93 counts to that indictment, 93 counts only because...
This "new refugee" phenomenon, though, is not just unique to the liberal Clinton administration. Back in 1962, during Kennedy's reign, the legendary global investor Sir John Templeton renounced his U.S. citizenship, moving to Nassau...